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How many working days in year 1994?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1994 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 1994.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Good Friday : Friday, 1 April, 1994
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 4 April, 1994
3. St Cyril and Methodius' Day : Tuesday, 5 July, 1994
4. Jan Hus Day : Wednesday, 6 July, 1994
5. St Wenceslas Day : Wednesday, 28 September, 1994
6. Independence Day : Friday, 28 October, 1994
7. Freedom and Democracy Day : Thursday, 17 November, 1994
8. St. Stephen's Day : Monday, 26 December, 1994

And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Restoration Day of the Independent Czech State : Saturday, 1 January, 1994
2. Labour Day : Sunday, 1 May, 1994
3. Liberation Day : Sunday, 8 May, 1994
4. Christmas Eve : Saturday, 24 December, 1994
5. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 1994